Earl Donald de Mar 
Donald was born in Kildrummy, Aberdeenshire, Scotland. Donald's father was Earl William de Mar VI and his mother was Elizabeth Comyn. His paternal grandfather was Earl Duncan de Mar V and his paternal grandmother is Orabella Latherisk; his maternal grandparents were Earl William Comyn of Buchan and Margaret Colhan. He was an only child. He died after July 25th, 1297.General Notes
7th Earl of Mar
Earl William died in 1273, and was succeeded by his eldest son, Donald, seventh Earl of Mar. He was present at the meeting of the Estates held at Scone on the 5th of February, 1284, in which the barons and bishops bound themselves in the name of the nation to acknowledge the king’s granddaughter, Margaret, the Maid of Norway, as the heir of the Crown of Scotland. The Earl of Mar was present in the chapel of the Castle of Berwick, on the 3rd of August, 1291, when Edward I. protested that his consent to try the claims of the candidates for the Scottish Crown within the realm of Scotland, should not prejudice the exercise of his right as Lord Superior of Scotland, within the kingdom of England. The same year, on the 24th of July, he was present in the Church of the Friars at Perth, when Edward I. received the fealty of Mary, Queen of Isle of Man, and Countess of Strathearn. Earl Donald fought at the battle of Dunbar, on the 26th of April, 1296; and shortly after he was taken a prisoner by the English.
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Ancestor Pedigree Chart
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*There are earlier generations for the ancestor(s) indicated. See their page(s) for details (click name)
- b.~ 1082 in Dumfermline, Fifeshire, Scotland
- b.~ 1115 in Dunfermline, Fifeshire, Scotland d.30 Mar 1182/1183
- b.~ 1153 in Aberdeenshire, Scotland d.1242
- b.~ 1120 in Dunfermline, Fifeshire, Scotland
- b.1222 in Aberdeenshire, Scotland d.1273
- b.~ 1110 d.~ 1200
- b.~ 1145 d.~ 1225
- b.~ 1175
- b.1235/1243 in Kildrummy, Aberdeenshire, Scotland d.>25 Jul 1297
- b.~ 1053 in Morayshire, Scotland
- b.~ 1084 in Altyre, Morayshire, Scotland
- b.~ 1057 in Fonthill, Sussex, England
- b.~ 1115 in Altyre, Morayshire, Scotland
- b.1057 in Basset, Leicestershire, England
- b.~ 1088 in Basset, Leicestershire, England
- b.~ 1163 in Buchan, Aberdeenshire, Scotland d.1233 in Buchan, Aberdeen, Scotland
- b.~ 1046 in Northumberland, England d.31 May 1076 in St. Giles Hill, Winchester, England
- b.1096 in Tynedale, Morayshire, Scotland
- b.1054/1055 in Lens, Artois, France
- b.~ 1122 in Tynedale, Morayshire, Scotland
- b.~ 1033 in Atholl, Pertshire, Scotland d.1099 in Rescobie, Angusshire, Scotland
- b.1100 in Tynedale, Morayshire, Scotland
- b.~ 1223 in Altyre, Morayshire, Scotland d.1267
- b.~ 1092 in Buchan, Aberdeenshire, Scotland
- b.~ 1120 in Buchan, Aberdeenshire, Scotland d.> 1179
- b.~ 1092 in Buchan, Aberdeenshire, Scotland
- b.~ 1140 in Buchan, Aberdeenshire, Scotland d.1199 in Buchan, Aberdeen, Scotland
- b.ABT 1172/1200 in Buchan, Aberdeenshire, Scotland d.< 1244
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Donald and Elen were married in a religious ceremony about 1269 in Kildrummy, Aberdeenshire, Scotland. They had a son and a daughter, named Garnait and Isobel.
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Children
Earl Garnait de Mar
Garnait was born in 1272 in Kildrummy Castle, Kildrummy, Aberdeenshire, Scotland. He died at the age of 33 in September 1305.
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